A section of the 5,000-strong march through Nottingham determined to defend NHS jobs and A&E services

903 NHS COMPULSORY SACKINGS! – Trade unions must act

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‘We will be consulting our members on what action should be taken to defend these NHS jobs’, GMB trade union national officer Sharon...

CROW CALLS FOR GENERAL STRIKE! – no mandate for coalition cuts!

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THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday called for ‘general coordinated strike action allied to community direct action’ to resist the ConDem coalition government’s...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and their campaign team won big support on Southall High Street and from postal workers at Greenford Mail Centre yesterday

Postal workers back Gate Gourmet rally

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POSTAL workers from the Greenford Mail Centre, one of the biggest in the country, are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ first...
Ambulance workers joined the mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning to stop the closure of the A&E and demand the maternity and children’s wards be re-opened

‘BRING DOWN TORIES!’ – says Ealing Hospital mass picket

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‘IF THEY get rid of 600 beds and so many staff, 8,000 jobs in all – what a disaster! That would be the...

NHS workers need 15% pay rise now! – TUC must call a general strike...

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UNISON’S campaign for an immediate pay rise for health workers goes up a level this week – with a plea to the public and...
Teachers marching in London during their strike action last year – they are very angry that they face another year when many teachers won’t get a pay rise at all

Zero Pay Rise For Many Thousands!

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‘THERE is to be a zero pay rise for thousands of teachers in 2015-16.’ So said Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, commenting on...
Ealing mothers and their babies lobbying the Clinical Commissioning Group demanding that their hospital’s Maternity Department is kept open

KPMG paid £10m to recommend NHS closures

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LABOUR has demanded the publication of reports costing £10 million, paid by the NHS to management consultants KPMG, which recommended closing hospitals and axing...

MURDER IN IRAQ! – new inquiry into British Army

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THE Secretary of State for Defence will today announce in Parliament the establishment of a public inquiry into the incident of alleged mistreatment and...
Thousands of health workers and their supporters marched through Nottingham last Saturday demanding the defence of the NHS. They called to stop the privatisation of NHS Logistics

‘A PRIVATISATION TOO FAR’ – UNISON leader Prentis urges suspend NHS Logistics sell-off

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UNISON members at four NHS Logistics depots began a second 24 hour strike, last night at 10pm. Runcorn depot stopped at 11pm. The workers are...

Personal budgets cutting care!

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The personal budgets being introduced for social care are being used to implement the government’s spending cuts, charities warned yesterday. On November 16, Care Services...
Young Socialist marchers making their way out of Birmingham on Saturday

Great Midlands welcome for YS March for Jobs

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THE YS March for Jobs set off yesterday from Coventry after winning great support when they stayed there on Saturday night. Coventry Unison’s branch administrator,...
Yesterday morning’s demonstration outside the headquarters of Network Rail at Euston

NO PAY RISE FOR YEARS! – end exploitation of rail cleaners say RMT

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MORE than 50 members of the RMT rail union demonstrated outside the headquarters of Network Rail at Euston yesterday morning, before picketing the Association...

BA SHUT DOWN! – Walsh rejects T&G goodwill gesture

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‘We don’t want macho management or macho trade unionism, we want an honourable compromise,’ said Transport and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley...
A very badly beaten Baha Mousa, an Iraqi hotel worker, tortured by British soldiers in Iraq

‘Baha Mousa is not the only Iraqi killed by British forces’

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The High Court yesterday gave the go ahead for a legal challenge over the torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of UK troops. The...

Huge rise in US military spending

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THE US senate has unveiled a draft bill that would authorise Washington to modernise its nuclear weapon arsenal, in a move to counter China’s...

Labour Failing Homeless

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Homelessness charity Crisis yesterday called on the government to make public services more accessible to homeless people. Crisis said: ‘Public services are failing homeless people. ‘Public...
Students from all over the country lobbied parliament in February for the right to free English language courses

NORTH LONDON COLLEGES ON THE MARCH – to defend ESOL

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Staff and students from North London colleges are today marching to demonstrate their opposition to plans to restrict access to free English for Speakers...

TORIES BREAKING APART! – Gove suspected of an anti-Johnson plot

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SENIOR Tories sought to deny that the Tory government is breaking apart yesterday, with former Brexit Secretary David Davis congratulating PM Boris Johnson for...
Demonstration outside the sham ‘consultation’ over the west London hospital closures at Westminster City Hall on June 26

MARCH ON DOWNING STREET! –to defend four West London Hospitals

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THERE is to be a march from Ealing Hospital to Downing Street in the first week of September to stop the closure...
Manchester students gave their full support to ‘the fight for better opportunities for today’s youth’

Manchester SU supports YS March

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‘MANCHESTER University Students Union (SU) supports the march because we support the fight for better opportunities for today’s youth,’ said Charlie Cook, the SU...

UK economy collapsing – destitution on the rise

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BUSINESS activity in Britain fell for the third consecutive month last month, with economists warning of recession. The S&P Global/CIPS flash services business activity index...

Bma To March To Tuc Rally

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LONDON’S doctors are to march through London to the TUC’s ‘Save Our NHS Rally’ at Central Halls Westminster on Wednesday March 7th. The London Regional...

4th round of Russia Ukraine talks begin – as Russian 40-mile armoured column advances...

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RUSSIAN and Ukrainian negotiators began a fourth round of talks yesterday. Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak said the talks focused on establishing a ceasefire, the withdrawal...

NHS workers immigration status victory – Home Office forced to U-turn yesterday morning!

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THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...

NO POWER FOR 9 DAYS! – ‘totally unacceptable’ says Kwarteng

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IT IS ‘totally unacceptable’, that over 4,000 households in North East England remain without power more than nine days after Storm Arwen tore down...
Postal workers marching through Corby on March 20th against local MP Phil Hope reneging on his promise to oppose privatisation

‘WE WILL STRIKE TO DEFEND POST JOBS’ – say CWU reps

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‘We are not going to take this lightly. We will do whatever has to be done to hold on to every part of the...

‘WE ARE ALL GOING BACK TOGETHER’ – Gate Gourmet workers vow ‘no compromise’

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THE GATE GOURMET pickets were in a lively mood yesterday, full of determination that they were all going to get their jobs back in...
Young workers marching against the Tory-LibDem coalition. Mass sackings and cuts to services are causing mass unemployment

Jobless Shock!

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TRADE unions slammed the government’s mass sackings and cuts to services as being directly responsible for the shocking unemployment figures released yesterday. These showed that...

Rubio-Netanyahu joint press conference!

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference in Israel yesterday, in which they threatened...

Doctors defy Starmer’s ‘48 hours to call off strike’ threat

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THE British Medical Association has responded defiantly to Labour PM Starmer’s threat to break his pledge to train 1,000 new doctors unless the union...

Rashford forces Tory U-turn over free school meals

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OVER a million children suffering in dire poverty in the UK will now get free school meal vouchers during the holidays, after a successful...
Striking prison officers outside Brixton prison yesterday

ILLEGAL STRIKE! – POA takes Labour by surprise

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Prison Officers Association (POA) members defied the government yesterday and walked out for the first illegal strike against Labour over public sector...

5-year spending freeze – demands Tory MP Fox

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LEADING Tory MP, Liam Fox, has called for Osborne to announce a freeze on all public spending, which would cut spending by 2.5% a...
Thousands marched fromn the BMA headquarters to Westminster demanding that the NHS Health Bill be smashed – it is now law and workers are determined to fight it

SACK THE COALITION! – to keep our hospitals open

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THE Hewletts came straight to the point yesterday over the plan to close Chase Farm hospital. ‘We should sack Lansley and the whole government to...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers and supporters at the start of their First Anniversary march on August 20 this year  – one year since they were sacked – currently attending their Employment Tribunal  over wrongful dismissal

GATE GOURMET CONVENOR ‘SHOCKED’ – when he heard his members were to be dismissed...

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FORMER Gate Gourmet general manager Hans Bosch, who has now left the company, gave evidence on the fourth day of the Gate Gourmet employment...

‘Strongest sanctions on Iran in history!’ – US ultimatum

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‘NO ONE can force Iran to do this,’ Iran will stay in Syria as long as it wants, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran...

Hamas fighters in fierce battles with Israeli army in Jabalia!

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The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported yesterday that it has treated numerous Palestinians, including children, injured in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, even...

March of the 4-year-olds demands no test

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SOME of the youngest protesters ever rose up yesterday in the ‘march of the four-year-olds!’ where over 200 parents accompanied an army of children...

Tories on collision course with nursing staff

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‘THE government is setting itself on a collision course with nursing staff,’ the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has warned. The RCN, which represents over...

Suspects’ detention extended to 28 days

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A High Court judge has given police another seven days to detain without charge, five suspects in connection with the alleged plot to blow...

May government found in contempt of Parliament!

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‘IT IS I think unprecedented for this House to find government ministers in contempt,’ Keir Starmer, Labour’s shadow Brexit Secretary said yesterday, after a...

Pressure Mounts On May To Resign

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Home Secretary Theresa May came under renewed pressure to resign yesterday, after former head of the UK Border Force Brodie Clark rebutted her claim...
Devastation after a terrorist bomb blew up at a bus station in Jableh, killing at least 73 and wounding many others

Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey ordered terrorist attacks in Syria

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THE Syrian Cabinet has condemned the terrorist blasts which hit the cities of Jableh, Tartous, and al-Qamishli last Monday. It also condemned terrorist mortar attacks...
Metronet workers lobbying 10 Downing Street last month demanding an end to the public/ private partnership on the tube

‘Guarantee our jobs by Wednesday or we strike’

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If Metronet do not guarantee our members’ jobs, wages and conditions, and pensions by Wednesday night, we will name strike dates, said the leaders...